A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Davies, Arthur
DAVIES. (Lieutenant, 1808.)
Arthur Davies entered the Navy, 1 June, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. Fiorenzo 40, Capts. Chas. Wm. Paterson and Joseph Bingham, employed at the blockade of Havre de Grace, and also in the East Indies, where he served, from May, 1803 to Jan. 1807, with the present Sir Josiah Coghill, as Midshipman, in the Rattlesnake sloop and La Concorde frigate, and, for the next three years, with Rear-Admirals Sir Edw. Pellew and Wm. O’Brien Drury, in the Culloden and Russel 74’s, of which latter ship he was created a Lieutenant 27 Dec. 1808. He returned home with convoy in the Belliqueux 64, Capt. Geo. Byng, in 1811; and was subsequently appointed – 12 Aug. 1812, to the Lyra 10, Capt. Robt. Bloye, on the north coast of Spain – 25 Jan. 1813, to the Hamadryad 36, Capt. Edw. Chetham, under whom he witnessed the capture, 12 Dec. 1814, of the Abigail Danish national cutter, and afterwards served on the Newfoundland station – and, 30 May, 1815, as Second, to the Brazen 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling. He invalided home from the West Indies in Sept. 1816; and was next appointed, 26 April, 1823, to the Water Guard Service, in which he continued for some time. Lieut. Davies is at present employed as Emigration Agent at Hobart Town.
He married, 6 May, 1824, Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Geo. Matcham, Esq., of Ashford Lodge, co. Sussex, sister-in-law of Lieutenants, in the Navy, John Bendyshe and H. W. Mason, as likewise of the late Capt. Edw. Blanckley, R.N., and niece of the immortal Nelson. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.